Jennifer Shellard

Jennifer Shellard MA RCA Constructed Textiles

Pathway Leader for BA Fashion Design Technology, Surface Textiles at London College of Fashion.

Recent exhibitions include:

2002 From the Shadow to the Light, Contemporary Applied Arts, London (subsequently Toured)

2004 The Space Between Conference, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts W.Australia

2004 The 2nd European Triennial of Textile and Fibre Art; Museum of Applied Arts, Riga Latvia

2005 The 4th International Biennial of Mini Textiles; Vilnius, Lithuania

2005 Visions in Textiles in conjunction with ETN Annual conference; Izmir Turkey

2006, (forthcoming) Scythia The 6th International Biennial of Textile Art, Kherson, Ukraine.

Jennifer Shellard's LIGHT CLOTH is a practice based research project which explores interactions between hand woven textiles and projected, manipulated light. The research is currently developing into a form of installation involving animated abstract sequences, digitally projected onto woven textile lengths. Materials, compositions, colours and structures are evolving in response to the light - and vice versa – so both components are reciprocal and interdependent.

The research seeks to extend the boundaries of hand woven textiles through the development of integrated textile-light installations. The project challenges and re-presents notions and traditions of craft practice by investigating the synthesis of hand woven textiles with technology. By exploring the viability of engineering and manipulating both the textile and the lighting components, the proposal centres on the creation of a unique symbiosis, where each component is transformed in the final presentation. Key aims of the project centre on developing a distinctive aesthetic and on investigating relationships of colour within pigment and light and in dynamically presenting the interaction between them.